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I certainly learned plenty Maybe more than you realize. Obviously, the term "entrepreneur" is used quite loosely in this example. But that does not discount
by edw519 17y ago
I certainly learned plenty
Maybe more than you realize.
Obviously, the term "entrepreneur" is used quite loosely in this example. But that does not discount the incredibly valuable experience this girl is getting. She has positive mental attitude, initiative, passion, a little vision, and gets off her butt to get work done. IMHO, that puts her in the top 1% of her peers in the things that will be important in her future.
It's easy for some of us to take these things for granted because we had to find our own way to success. But believe me, I know so many adults that could make their lives so much better if they were only this "childish". That was the lesson I was trying to cite.
- tjr 17y agoIndeed. When I was a kid, I would have ideas for things and just do them. Maybe it worked, maybe it didn't, but I always learned something. Now when I have ideas, I analyze most of them to death, out of concern that... what if it doesn't make money?... what if there's something better I should be working on instead?... etc. So many of my ideas die unused. Sometimes I see someone else have the same idea and run with it. For example, I thought of the same basic idea as the AfterTheDeadline software, around the same time. I didn't implement it, but someone else did, to great success. Why didn't I do it? I couldn't think of how I could sell it, or who would even use it. Of course, I applaud the success of AfterTheDeadline. But I gotta stop destroying my own ideas under the hammer of paranoid analysis.
- jacquesm 17y agoYour childhood truth still holds, worst case you will learn something. Go do those things and who knows where it will lead.